Myths of the archaic state: evolution of the earliest cities, states and civilizations
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| adam_text | Contents
List of figures page
χ
List of tables
xiii
INTRODUCTION
1
THE EVOLUTION OF A FACTOID
4
An introduction to social evolutionary mythology
5
Types, rules, and factoids
6
Neo-evolutionism evolving
8
States and civilizations: beyond heuristics
15
DIMENSIONS OF POWER IN THE EARLIEST STATES
22
The pursuit of the wily chiefdom
22
Neo-evolutionism and new social evolutionary theory: back
to the future
31
The evolution of power and its distribution in the earliest states
33
Dimensions of power in social evolutionary theory
34
States as states of mind
38
What neo-evolutionism cannot explain
41
THE MEANING OF CITIES IN THE EARLIEST STATES
AND CIVILIZATIONS
42
City-states and chimeras
44
VII
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
Cities and states
45
Mesopotamian city-states and Mesopotamian civilization
53
Cities and city-states in social evolutionary perspective
59
WHEN COMPLEXITY WAS SIMPLIFIED
91
Simplifying the path to power in early Chinese states
94
Law and order in ancient Mesopotamia
100
The context of Mesopotamian law
102
The context and function of the code of Hammurabi
104
The complexities of legal simplification: decision-making in Mesopotamia
109
IDENTITY AND AGENCY IN EARLY STATES: CASE STUDIES
ИЗ
A peculiar institution in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
116
Imagining sex in an early state
121
Conclusion: Encounters with women in early states
128
THE COLLAPSE OF ANCIENT STATES AND CIVILIZATIONS I31
Theorizing collapse
132
Neo-evolutionism and collapse
134
Collapse as the drastic restructuring of social institutions
138
The collapse of ancient Mesopotamian states and civilization
140
The Old Akkadian state
142
The Third Dynasty of Ur
144
The Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian states
147
The end of the cycle?
151
Collapse as the mutation of social identity and suffocation of cultural memory
153
The collapse of Mesopotamian civilization and its regeneration
159
SOCIAL EVOLUTIONARY TRAJECTORIES l6l
Evolutionary history of the
Chaco rituality
162
Non-normative thinking in social evolutionary theory
171
Southwest and Southeast
173
Towards a history of social evolutionary trajectories
177
NEW RULES OF THE GAME l80
The game of archaeological neologisms
181
The engineering of archaeological theory: mining and bridging
182
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
How archaeologists lost their innocence
Levels of archaeological theory
Sources of analogy in archaeological theory
Analogy and the comparative method
183
185
188
192
ALTERED STATES: THE EVOLUTION OF HISTORY I96
An essay on the evolution of Mesopotamian states and civilization
198
Initial conditions and emergent properties
200
Interaction and identity
204
The formation of Mesopotamian civilization and Mesopotamian
city-states
209
Evolutionary histories of the earliest cities, states, and civilizations
228
Acknowledgments
233
References
236
Index
268
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Contents
List of figures page
χ
List of tables
xiii
INTRODUCTION
1
THE EVOLUTION OF A FACTOID
4
An introduction to social evolutionary mythology
5
Types, rules, and factoids
6
Neo-evolutionism evolving
8
States and civilizations: beyond heuristics
15
DIMENSIONS OF POWER IN THE EARLIEST STATES
22
The pursuit of the wily chiefdom
22
Neo-evolutionism and new social evolutionary theory: back
to the future
31
The evolution of power and its distribution in the earliest states
33
Dimensions of power in social evolutionary theory
34
States as states of mind
38
What neo-evolutionism cannot explain
41
THE MEANING OF CITIES IN THE EARLIEST STATES
AND CIVILIZATIONS
42
City-states and chimeras
44
VII
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
Cities and states
45
Mesopotamian city-states and Mesopotamian civilization
53
Cities and city-states in social evolutionary perspective
59
WHEN COMPLEXITY WAS SIMPLIFIED
91
Simplifying the path to power in early Chinese states
94
Law and order in ancient Mesopotamia
100
The context of Mesopotamian law
102
The context and function of the code of Hammurabi
104
The complexities of legal simplification: decision-making in Mesopotamia
109
IDENTITY AND AGENCY IN EARLY STATES: CASE STUDIES
ИЗ
A peculiar institution in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
116
Imagining sex in an early state
121
Conclusion: Encounters with women in early states
128
THE COLLAPSE OF ANCIENT STATES AND CIVILIZATIONS I31
Theorizing collapse
132
Neo-evolutionism and collapse
134
Collapse as the drastic restructuring of social institutions
138
The collapse of ancient Mesopotamian states and civilization
140
The Old Akkadian state
142
The Third Dynasty of Ur
144
The Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian states
147
The end of the cycle?
151
Collapse as the mutation of social identity and suffocation of cultural memory
153
The collapse of Mesopotamian civilization and its regeneration
159
SOCIAL EVOLUTIONARY TRAJECTORIES l6l
Evolutionary history of the
Chaco "rituality"
162
Non-normative thinking in social evolutionary theory
171
Southwest and Southeast
173
Towards a history of social evolutionary trajectories
177
NEW RULES OF THE GAME l80
The game of archaeological neologisms
181
The engineering of archaeological theory: mining and bridging
182
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
How archaeologists lost their innocence
Levels of archaeological theory
Sources of analogy in archaeological theory
Analogy and the comparative method
183
185
188
192
ALTERED STATES: THE EVOLUTION OF HISTORY I96
An essay on the evolution of Mesopotamian states and civilization
198
Initial conditions and emergent properties
200
Interaction and identity
204
The formation of Mesopotamian civilization and Mesopotamian
city-states
209
Evolutionary histories of the earliest cities, states, and civilizations
228
Acknowledgments
233
References
236
Index
268 |
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